Clinical Manifestations of Epidemic Parotitis with External Heat Toxin:
Mild fever with chills, swelling and pain in one or both sides of the parotid gland below the ear, difficulty in chewing, and may have red throat, red tongue, thin white or thin yellow coating, and floating and rapid pulse.
【Honeysuckle Cooling Tea】
Formula: 60g fresh honeysuckle or 30g dried honeysuckle.
Method: Rinse the honeysuckle with water, put it in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil it for 3 minutes, remove the residue and take about 250ml of the decoction.
Efficacy: Clear heat and detoxify.
Usage: The above is the dosage for one day, make it into a cold drink or tea, and take it 2-3 times a day for 3-5 consecutive days.
【Rock Sugar Stewed Duck Egg】
Formula: 1 duck egg, 15g rock sugar.
Method: Dissolve the rock sugar in boiling water, let the water cool down, then add the duck egg and stir well, steam until cooked.
Efficacy: Clear heat and detoxify, invigorate the spleen and stimulate appetite.
Usage: Take it twice a day, continuously for 1 week.
【Mung Bean and Bok Choy Soup】
Formula: 100g mung beans, 3 bok choy hearts.
Method: Boil the mung beans in an appropriate amount of water until nearly cooked, add the bok choy hearts, and cook for another 20 minutes.
Efficacy: Clear heat and detoxify.
Usage: Take the warm juice in one go, divide it into two doses within one day, until recovery.
【Burdock Porridge】
Formula: 20g burdock seeds, 60g japonica rice, appropriate amount of sugar.
Method: Crush the burdock seeds, boil them in water to extract 100ml of juice, cook the rice into porridge, when the porridge is nearly done, add the burdock juice, mix well, and add sugar to taste.
Efficacy: Expel wind, disperse heat, detoxify and reduce swelling.
Usage: Take it twice a day, warm.
